1472 Episoder

  1. I found the first dinosaur remains in Antarctica

    Publisert: 22.10.2024
  2. The fight to stop skin lightening in India

    Publisert: 21.10.2024
  3. Eight years trapped on the Suez Canal in Egypt

    Publisert: 18.10.2024
  4. Dyke and Dryden: Cosmetic kings

    Publisert: 17.10.2024
  5. Fleeing Afghanistan alone as a child

    Publisert: 16.10.2024
  6. The Rose Revolution in Georgia

    Publisert: 15.10.2024
  7. The Sunflower Movement

    Publisert: 14.10.2024
  8. 'Robocops’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Publisert: 11.10.2024
  9. How the QR code was invented

    Publisert: 10.10.2024
  10. The world's first general purpose electronic computer

    Publisert: 9.10.2024
  11. WABOT-1: The first humanoid robot

    Publisert: 8.10.2024
  12. Eliza: When chatbots started

    Publisert: 7.10.2024
  13. The longest plane hijacking in Latin America

    Publisert: 4.10.2024
  14. The speech that inspired the Law of the Sea

    Publisert: 3.10.2024
  15. South Africa’s nuclear weapons

    Publisert: 2.10.2024
  16. Cambodia war crimes

    Publisert: 1.10.2024
  17. Kristallnacht: The night of broken glass

    Publisert: 30.9.2024
  18. The Estonia ferry disaster

    Publisert: 27.9.2024
  19. South Africa’s first inter-racial marriage

    Publisert: 26.9.2024
  20. Arrested for 'immorality' in South Africa

    Publisert: 25.9.2024

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Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world, to examine wars, coups, scientific discoveries, cultural moments and much more. Recent episodes explore everything from the death of Adolf Hitler, the first spacewalk and the making of the movie Jaws, to celebrity tortoise Lonesome George, the Kobe earthquake and the invention of superglue. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: Eva Peron – Argentina’s Evita; President Ronald Reagan and his famous ‘tear down this wall’ speech; Thomas Keneally on why he wrote Schindler’s List; and Jacques Derrida, France’s ‘rock star’ philosopher. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the civil rights swimming protest; the disastrous D-Day rehearsal ; and the death of one of the world’s oldest languages.

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